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Therese Nilsson. Photo.

Therese Nilsson

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Therese Nilsson. Photo.

Revisiting Sweden's Comprehensive School Reform: Effects on Education and Earnings

Author

  • Martin Fischer
  • Gawain Heckley
  • Martin Karlsson
  • Therese Nilsson

Summary, in English

We revisit a Swedish comprehensive school reform first evaluated by Meghir and Palme (2005). This reform increased years of schooling and abolished tracking. We extend the original analysis to the full population and introduce an improved education measure. Our results confirm the original overall finding of small average earnings effects. However, we find considerably larger increases in educational attainment and no evidence of decreased labor earnings for students with high-educated fathers. Our analysis provides two new important insights: First, we find no evidence that de-tracking had differential earnings effects across socioeconomic groups. Second, previous instrumental variable (IV) estimates using similar administrative education data are substantially upward biased.

Department/s

  • Centre for Economic Demography
  • Health Economics
  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Pages

811-819

Publication/Series

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volume

37

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Economics

Status

Published

Research group

  • Health Economics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0883-7252